50 AX AMERICAN FARMER IX EXGLAXD. 



haggard and stupid, and all with whom I have talked, say a poor 

 man can hardly live here. There is a strong anti-free-trade 

 growling among them, and they complain much of the repeal of 

 the Navigation Laws, asserting that American ships are now get- 

 ting business that was formerly in the hands of the English alone, 

 and so American sailors do the labor in the docks which was 

 formerly given to the stevedores and working men of the town. 



Clothing, shoes, etc., and rents, are a good deal cheaper than 

 in New York, and common articles of food but little higher. I 

 have obtained the following as specimens of prices for a few or- 

 dinary necessaries of life (1st of June) : 



Beef, mutton, and pork, fine, 12 cts. a pound; lamb, 16 cts.; 

 veal, 10 cts. 



Salmon,, 33 cts. a pound; fresh butter, 27 cts.; potatoes, 31 cts. 

 a peck. 



Fowls, 75 cts. a pair ; rabbits, 50 cts. a pair ; pigeons, 37 cts. 

 each. 



Best Ohio flour, ("superfine,") $6.25 a barrel. 



Bread, 2 J- cts. a pound, or a loaf of twelve pounds, 30 cts. 



Bread of best quality, 3 cts. per lb., or loaf of twelve pounds, 

 35 ct?. 



Sugar is higher, and tropical fruits, pine-apples, oranges, etc., 

 are sold by the hucksters for more money than in New York. 



Gas. The town is well lighted by gas, and it is much used in 

 private houses much more generally than in New York. Price 

 $1.12 per 1000 feet. 



Water. Water is conveyed through the town and to the ship- 

 months absence in Europe. I observe lately, that the Earl of Carlisle has said something 

 of similar import. I do believe the people of the United States have less of pleasure and 

 less of actual suffering than any other in the world Hopefulness, but hope ever unsat- 

 isfied, is marked in every American's face. In contrast with Germany, it is particularly 

 evident that most of us know but little of the virtuous pleasure God has fitted us to en- 

 joy in this world. 



